AK-47 found at South African terror suspect's home

Police found an AK-47 rifle and ammunition in the house of a South African terror suspect accused of threatening the U.S. and Britain, prosecutors said during a bail hearing Friday.

At the hearing, Brian Roach's lawyers said he would plead guilty to attempted extortion, but not for terror charges. She also said the 64-year-old was not looking to bail.

Roach is accused of sending e-mails threatening to foot and mouth disease in the U.S. and Britain circulated unless the government paid him $ 4 million.

Prosecutors have said police have no evidence that Roach had found the means to his threats.

Roach, who owns an engineering firm outside Johannesburg, and has business interests in Zimbabwe, is accused of saying in emails that he wanted the money to compensate white Zimbabwean farmers for lost land, and accused U.S. and British governments not doing enough to help the farmers.

About 4,000 white farmers have been forced from their farms since 2000 in what the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe calls a campaign to get more land in the hands of the impoverished blacks. Many of the beneficiaries, though, are top politicians close to Mugabe.

South African researchers worked with American and British officials about the case and arrested Roach on February 12 after a seven month study.